Because what we’re describing is a larger issue that permits toxic behavior of the whole forum and has for many years.
Adding a BTag system, adding account based ignores on the forums like in the game, and forcing people to EXPLAIN why they’re reporting a post would fix huge chunks of the problems we are describing.
that is because you named your character that - my bnet just shows up because I have no character with that name.
nvm - they must have changed it from last time I was on there but really no character shows up for me
In any case, I am dead against having all my characters displayed on here because I have been harassed in game numerous times when I used to post on my main.
No, my character is not named MissCheetah. That is my Battletag. My Battletag is what is used to post on ALL other Blizzard forums.
My Battletag links to my Diablo 3 profile with all my characters. It does that for everyone.
I linked you to my Btag profile to show you how that works and also to the Diablo 3 “armory” so to speak. Which shows all our chars.
Our Chars are not private information.
Ah ok - no it has never ever showed chars. The other forums all use Btag and always have.
Again, only WoW lets people alt hop.
actually it doesn’t.
this is what I get
Yes, it means you have not logged in to your D3 characters in quite some time. The website requires that to refresh from time to time. The WoW Armory does that too if you don’t log in for a long time.
this is an issue - I have changed posting characters a number of times on this forum for precisely this reason. I will all of a sudden be getting post after post reported on a character, I switch characters and no problems.
If likes are at the Bnet level then each one of those “friends” gets one like per Bnet account. Right now they each get 8 WoW licences X 50 chars per license worth of likes.
I would argue having the trust levels, likes, flags, and ignore at the Bnet level reduces brigadding immensely. They go from 400 possible characters per Bnet worth of “likes” or flags to 1 per Bnet.
Yes, but WoW got special treatment, because we have different specific characters. Though I do think it should have your Bnet ID at the end of your character’s name.
Agreed. This is dumb.
If they link us all by Bnet ID next to our names, that may be able to change, but I doubt it with how Discord works.
Fixed if they do the Bnet ID in parenthesis after our names.
The flagging system needs to go back to a report system with more specific options and the option for a customized note, too.
That isn’t really going to change. It can’t be black and white.
Agreed. I like the idea of an optional box to type in what’s going on.
less than 6 months ago.
And was fixed. CS posted about it only a few hours ago.
Yes, that would work. It would ignore at the Bnet account level so anything posted by that Bnet account would be grey and say it was from someone you ignored. That is the base function of Discord and Discord works at the Bnet level for all other Blizzard games.
Probably long enough. I have some chars on mine that are not showing at all even though I have logged into the account. I have not logged into THOSE chars. The D3 Profile system is buggier than the WoW Armory “Beta”.
My point though is that active D3 players can’t “hide” and if they say something about a class, people can and will pull up their profile and check it. Super helpful for troubleshooting and advice. Sometimes abused just like Armory is here though to undermine what someone says. BUT, it is not a privacy issue.
Yay!
That’s good to know!
I actually disagree. I am pretty sure overwatch gives people an option to have their characters displayed or not. If they do this, then they will need to be prepared to have a lot more in game harassment tickets made because some people on this forum can’t let things go and resort to sending mails in game.
I also wonder if the way the armory is set up it is even possible to link the bnet to characters, someone said it wasn’t for wow.
I don’t want that. Why would anyone want someone they didn’t choose to represent them.
OW does not have any characters you make. It has two versions of the Profile. One is basic and shows your platform, account level, and rankings.
The other is an optional version of a profile that shows all your stats, achievements, most commonly played hero, etc.
That has not been my experience. If people can only see the chars you post on, like now, they can’t hunt down your alts.
Possible, yes. Likely, no.
Unlike D3, WoW does not show all your chars linked to a Btag in Profile. Each Armory Char is stand alone for WoW.
Mirasol-mannoroth (MissCheetah) would link to the Mirasol Armory
If I wanted someone to see the armory of a diff WoW char, I would have to switch to it.
WoWchar2-mannoroth (MissCheetah) - would link to the Armory for WoWchar2.
there was discussion in this thread about the bnet showing all your characters - like D3. I am not sure what your point of linking that was then if you weren’t suggesting that.
although now I look at your link again, it might be that you can hide your profile there just like this forum.
This already exists.
This is how the MVPs work. This is how the “private forums” during every testing cycle works (that are separate from the PTR and Beta forums).
I’ve already stated that MVPs as a whole should be revamped, and include both people selected by devs alone (essentially as the current MVP system works), and another set of MVPs voted on by the playerbase and final say of who gets in relies on the CMs all the same (again, as the curent MVP system works).
Yeah harassment is going to exist regardless, but switching to Btag and choosing one character that shows up on your Btag’s profile picture when posting (so it’s always the BTag in the name, never the character) would prevent people from switching as easily.
Regardless, they’re making good changes to in-game reporting and ignore systems so a lot of the issues are fixed with account-wide ignore mechanisms.
It was a question.
maybe that is why the game is so bad then and I really don’t agree with any of that.
testing something
You said it did not happen on other Blizz forums so I linked it to show that was untrue, that Blizz has Btag linked to not just a single char, but all the chars or account progress for the other forums.
I am not suggesting that WoW do that. I was pointing out that it IS done elsewhere without harm.
For WoW, I would not suggest ever having a Btag show all the alts. Just put the Btag after the char name of the alts people CHOOSE to make public. Ones you don’t want public should not be public.
Not really. You can disable the quick link, but you can’t actually hide the Diablo 3 profile. Anyone can still bring it up.
OOOH. I am not green. Not green I am! Well that is not something I have ever tested. Old forums Green was at the Bnet account level. MVPs could not turn it off no matter where they posted or how. New forums apparently are char level.
That is what I was suggesting 
I want to keep the char avatar and transmog fun. Just the Btag after it needs to be where the trust levels, likes/reports, and ignore are. So people only know your alts if you post with them and make them public like I am now.
Of course, this char has no posting trust level because my permissions are at the char level, so I have to start all over if I want to earn linking permissions or something.
yes and that was because last time I was on there, it actually didn’t do that. It was changed since I was on there last.
I don’t see how it would be any different what you are suggesting then exists now. So I make a trial character - turn off show account wide achievements and then don’t log in with it again and hide profile - and the forum adds Dedeyn - bnet #34555